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FASTENER- APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24. I915.

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HOWARD SEABURY, OF NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA.

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Application fi1ed February 24, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, HOWARD SEABURY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Nevada City, in the county of Nevada and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in fasteners and more particularly to that class known as separable fasteners, the main object of the present invention being the provision of a fastener which can be quickly and readily applied to a garment or removed therefrom and can be readily used in place of the well known form of button and button-hole.

Another object of the present invention is the provision of a separable fastener adapted to be used where the meeting edges of two pieces of material are to be adjustably connected together, the fastener being used to connect the two edges in any desirable position.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter referred to and more particularly pointed out in the specification and claims.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this application, Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating my device as about to be applied. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view illustrating what is known as the retaining section. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of what is known as the button section. Fig. d is a detail transverse sectional view of the retaining member; and Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view, illustrating the relative positions of the button and retainer, when fastened.

In carrying out my invention, I provide what is known as the button receiving or retaining section, clearly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 as including an elongated body plate 1 provided with a plurality of transverse openings 2 preferably rectangular in form, as shown. These openings 2 are formed transversely of the plate and are arranged in alinement longitudinally of the plate. I provide a clamping member 3 which includes spaced parallel bars 4, the ends of which are connected by means of the upset transverse members 5.

Specification of Letters Patent.

The longitu- Patented Dec. ii, iaia.

Serial No. 10,307.

dinal spaced bars 4 are provided with the openings 6 adapted to receive the spur membets 7 which are insertible through the openings (3 and adapted to be clenched or upset, as shown in Fig. to securely clamp a piece of material between the two members 1 and 3. The openings 2 are divided by the transverse portions 8 which form stops for the button, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In Fig. 3, I have illustrated a perspective view of what will be known as the button and includes a body plate 9 having out wardly projecting spurs 10 formed upon the longitudinal edges thereof adapted to be inserted through the slots 11 formed in the clamping plate 12 whereby this button may be quickly and readily attached to the ma terial. Extending out from the button, at the outer face thereof, is a lug or projection 13 having a button head l-t formed integral therewith, said button head having one end thereof projecting farther beyond the side of the projection 18, than the other end, the purpose of which will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

It will be noted that after the button has been applied to the material, as illustrated in Fig. 1, it can be quickly and readily engaged with the plate 1 by inserting the longer end of the button head 14 within the openings 2 and then pulling back upon the same until the shorter end thereof engages beneath one edge of the opening. Thus both ends of the button will be engaged beneath the plate 1 so that the two pieces of material will. be detachably con nected.

In Fig. 5, I have illustrated these two sections in their connected position, showing how the two ends of the head 14L engage with the edges of the opening 2 to retain the button in its fastened position, and they can be quickly and readily disengaged from the plate 1 by moving the same longitudinally with respect to the plate 1 so as to disengage the shorter end of the head 14 from beneath the opening, whereby the button can be quickly and readily disconnected from the plate 1.

It will be readily apparent that my improved fasteningdevice can be quickly and readily attached to the meeting edges of two pieces of material so that they can be quickly and readily connected together in various adjusted positions, It will be noted that the opposite ends 5 are provided so that when the button is applied to the plate 1, neXt to the end of the member 8, the material can be depressed to permit the button head 14 to be inserted within the openings 2 at the ends of the plate 1. The device, as a Whole, is extremely simple in construction and can be manufactured and placed upon the market at a comparatively low cost.

While I have shown and described the preferred form of my invention, it will be obvious that various changes in the details of construction and in the proportions may be resorted to for successfully carrying my invention into practice, without sacrificing any of the novel features or departing from the scope of the invention, as defined by the appended claims.

Having thus described this invention, what I desire to claim as new and secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A fastening device comprising co-acting rigid members, one consisting of a body plate provided with slots, a clamping plate having upset end portions, said clamping plate being adapted to be detachably connected to the body plate, the other of said members consisting of a body plate, a clamping plate therefor, a shank projecting from the body plate, and a head on the shank, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A fastening device comprising co-acting rigid members, one consisting of a body plate provided with a plurality of slots,

spurs projecting from the plate, a clamping member having parallel side portions provided with openings to receive the spur members, said clamping plate being provided with upset ends, the other of said members consisting of a body plate provided with spurs, a clamping plate having openings to receive the spurs, a shank on the body plate, and a head formed integral with the shank adapted to be insertible through the slots in the first body plate, said head being of a width greater than the width of the slots, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HOWARD SEABURY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). C. 

